Hydraulic Press Vs. Ball Bearing Frozen In Liquid Nitrogen + Red Hot Ball Bearing

Exploding liquid nitrogen cooled Ball Bearing and red hot ball bearing with a 150 ton Hydraulic Press. Used force is measured with 240 ton force sensor and explosion is filmed with Chronos 2.1 high speed camera 1500 frames per second in this viral experiment video!
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Link to super slow motion video with ball bearings • Exploding Ball Bearing...
Do not try this at home!! or at any where else!!
Music Thor's Hammer-Ethan Meixell

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

Thanks to my friend Tami for explaining the weird results for me. If you are interested on hardening and heat treatment of huge steel parts go check out this video on Beyond the Press kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZ2wqGtmiJufmsU There Tami shows their heat treatment facility at ATA Gears.

[@Sr.DudeGuy]

Freeze the press plates and then stick a hot ball bearing in it to be crushed, please and thanks!

[@WetDoggo]

the surface just reflected the sparks, the surface is not getting hot. i didn't think it was necessary to comment 😅

[@ConcretorumAzoth]

Where do you buy liquid nitrogen in Finland? I need it for experiments, is it legal without permits?

[@joemarchinski914]

👍very very cool vid, as always🙂👍

[@timteecvhn]

Genuinely, I love it whenever the gopro sitting within the space of the press itself goes flying up into the air due to the force. Always funny to watch and just go "WEEEEEEE" as it flies up into the air.

[@loqueestamal3465]

I've heard of people cooling their balls with ice packs to improve performance, but using liquid nitrogen seems a bit hardcore to me.

[@wYatt121509]

A lot is wrong but, what you said is hillarious!

[@Patrik6920]

@@wYatt121509 ..ya..an ice pack sounds pretty nice if u had ur balls busted...dont know about liquid nitrogen... but thay say some ppl has balls of steel so...who knows... 😁😁😁

[@mursuhillo242]

And some guys are, for a lack of further elaboration, presumably stapling their balls on walls to further improve or surpass levels of performance previously considered to be the maximum.

[@Saitawa]

You guys are sussy

[@kaden-sd6vb]

@@mursuhillo242 the walls have balls

[@Slouworker]

Cryogenically treating steel can make it surprisingly strong. It's used to heat treat drill bits sometimes

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

I had never heard of that before. I think I have to try with more parts on future video

[@WoodworkerDon]

@@HydraulicPressChannel that could be Prrritti Guud video. 👍

[@sgakanon]

Cryo treating from applied science kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnLbmmiPjbmde80

[@getfucked3559]

@@HydraulicPressChannel Applied Science made a good video on it, it's a great channel you should check out

[@52flyingbicycles]

A lack-of-heat treat

[@redcookie100]

I never thought I'd see the day where anything actually STOPPED the hydraulic press at maximum. Wow!

[@dyadica7151]

I'm sure that you and the Slow Mo Guys would have a great time together no matter what crazy experiments you decided to do! (But I'm sure they'd prefer to visit Finland in summer :D )

[@mruniverse9500]

It's not gonna happen. There is nothing they can add, they have a fast camera and nothing else

[@Tharathgar]

@@mruniverse9500 A collab is about more than just what you can bring object wise, they can very easily communicate online about things they might want to crush and deicide if it's worthwhile endeavor. If personalities mesh in a way that just results in a good video it can gain views and subscribers on each others channels(not that they really need it). And they may just want to go to Finland anyways to visit.

[@crimsonscriticalcorner9048]

I'd love to see the individual cracks appear

[@kitsunekaze93]

@@mruniverse9500 they have expertise about lighting, focusing, and production. as well as intricate knowledge about slo-motion filming itself. they would make it look a hundredfold better, even though its the same subject.

[@GarageSupra]

he just needs a phantom camera

[@nylarnameless1759]

That 320000fps shot at the end is absolutely amazing. You see visualizations of high speed explosions and they obviously don't do it justice. The way the pulverized material hangs in the air at specific angles and in specific color ranges is really cool.

[@markfergerson2145]

Mach two point four four. Holy shit!

[@kujo62]

Watch it in 0.25x

[@Junksaint]

It would be cool to see a slo mo guys team up vid

[@KPid10t]

Facts

[@bobtiley]

Or Destin from Smarter Every Day

[@KPid10t]

@@bobtiley he’s great too!

[@joshuagibson2520]

It would, but they snub everyone. Have been for years.

[@xItzRevenge]

They probably wouldn’t go to Finland for that

[@ronniedale6040]

So great to see Anni being involved in vids again. Even just having her reactions on audio really brightens the mood of your vids.

[@GrowingAnswers]

This has likely been said already, but I’m almost certain the ball bearing from the previous video didn’t get red hot at all. What you saw was a frame where the sparks blurred as they shot across the flat surfaces of the press tools and the rounded surface of the bearing reflected the blurred sparks making it appear as if the bearing was hot.

[@alphagt62]

It would be interesting to aim a laser thermometer at the ball, and see what the temperature is while he crushes it. I’m sure it does indeed heat up, all that friction of the atoms changing place, and breaking molecular bonds, but just now hot? In this video, he said the cold bearings were still cold after he attempted to crush them, but they were super cold to start with. Knowing it’s exact temp as the pressure increases would be interesting.

[@Xeroisawesome]

You can clearly see the metal heat up on some parts, like the sockets. The condensation on the surface disappears when some of the cooled objects start being pressed. To what degree they heat up is a bit less clear, however.

[@GrowingAnswers]

@@Xeroisawesome yes they obviously heat up, but they don’t become red hot for fractions of seconds. That’s impossible anyway.

[@professorwilhelm]

Making the balls colder increases their brittleness, but what that really means is its hardness goes way up, but their ability to absorb shock goes way down. so it would be easier to throw a frozen ball bearing at the ground to break it than to just apply force to break it.

[@kaden-sd6vb]

So what you're saying is that they would make excellent ammunition for a railgun

[@goodgenes0]

@@kaden-sd6vb what i think would make excellent ammunition for a railgun is railgun ammunition

[@madb132]

@@goodgenes0 I am guessing you set fire to your toast every morning.😅

[@eclipse353]

B a l l s .

[@OmniscientWarrior]

​@@kaden-sd6vb Cooper would be better

[@offinthehaed]

What a wonderful example of how pressure creates heat , as you can clearly see the transition as you work the press.

[@microbuilder]

Hi Anni! Was cool to see the heat transferring from the pressure points down to the middle of the ball

[@lukemeier1853]

Thank you for showing up Anni, you make every video better, it's more like a family environment..

[@Cloudy_Paul2]

these videos are getting more and more crazy, keep it up !

[@NeoAfricanBroadcast]

Z

[@Chaosrain112]

Freeze frame at 0:38 is a great thumbnail! Also nice to see Anni again :D

[@flowerofash4439]

my theory is the little dent that formed from destroying previous balls create a "holding" cushion that makes the cold ball harder to crush. pressure with less surface create more penetration, the sunken dent create more surface that caused the ball become harder to crush

[@existenceisrelative]

Wow! Your filming setup is so much better these days!

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

Thanks! I have but lot of money and effort on building it so good to hear that all that pays off

[@CH1K3N99]

@@HydraulicPressChannel I remember when you used to squash the plasticine models your partner made

[@The_Modeling_Underdog]

High quality content. Loved the slo-mo. Glad to see Anni there. Cheers.

[@modraccin9514]

Hydraulic Press Channel has the strongest balls of steel!

[@deadprivacy]

Hoodrolic

[@johannesgjringb874]

As an engineer student, it is cool to see the theory in practice

[@RobertsMind]

I would love to see a collab between your channel and Slow-Mo-Guys. that would be a greatly amusing and maybe even educational episode. Great content as usual either way.

[@Odessa-2maya-2014]

While you are watching this video, Ukrainian soldiers are committing war crimes

[@danielhast7214]

I love your videos, but when Anni is there providing reactions, it just kicks them up a notch. 😂

[@Joze1090]

Has she been gone? Their channel was just recently recommended to me again

[@JoshL117]

Nice seeing Anni back again

[@sachiperez]

The faster cameras are nice, but we come here because of you and your ideas.

[@babaayman9658]

It’s converting the pressure into energy as heat. That means you are increasing the pressure needed by decreasing the amount of heat in the steel first. Lowering the temperature increases the energy needed. Because your tools material is close to the same material strength. It’s going to fail, unless you have something with higher density.

[@GeoffryWK]

Chrome Alloy Steel Balls, the most common bearing alloy, are manufactured from steel of the hardening type AISI E-52100. 52100 is a relatively simple steel with 1% carbon and 1.5% chromium, and small amounts of Mn and Si. In use since 1905.

[@zeelax]

yaaay, Anni's back 🙌

[@123fockewolf]

WHAT THA hELL 2:08 I love the finns accent to funny people! from sweden!

[@commander_dolphin5414]

I have been watching your videos for about a year and got super hyped as soon as I saw the Phantom camera at the end. Since 2013 I've been a big fan of The Slow Mo Guys and they are pretty much half of my inspiration and smarts for cinematography. One of my favorite things about your channel is the amazing camera quality that each and every video delivers. Image sensor size and dynamic range often matters more than resolution. The only thing better than the HPC is with the shenanigans of Gav & Dan. Would be a dream come true if you guys collaborated.

[@glidershower]

2:10 My guess is that by heating it before and froze it a later time, helped the ball to develop a softer mineral lattice from the outside to it's core, allowing the core more time to cool down very slowly, giving it a great inner flexibility compared to its surface that became weaker due to not having enough time nor heat to properly arrange itself like the softer inner core did. Yet by putting it in a extremely cold medium, the exterior had the chance to organize its laticce to becomen a hardened (and brittle) mineral lattice. And that's on top of regarding the spehere as the ultimate load bearer shape : A 3D shape that has a 2D surface, allowing load forces on its surface to be distributed evenly. Hence why the first one broke so dramatically, as its entire surface was subjected to a structural failure, again, evenly. I might be pushing it a bit, but that's kinda like the method employed on authentic single edge Japanese swords or double bladed like European swords: The softer metal acts as a flexible spine on its back or center of the swords, while retaining very hardened edges, creating a synergy that _allows the swords to be flexible enough to not break easily in combat_ yet _hard enough to retain their deadly sharp edge._ (Sorry if I sound redundant like Mojo JoJo, lolz)

[@davidwootton683]

18K views + in one hour. I work with steel, and to see what loading this stuff can handle is always amazing. You have a great channel, and all the hard work that goes into all this is very much appreciated . I also replay the exploding bits. What this shows us is how the material is held together atomically. And the energy that is released when subject to force loading. I came across an interesting fact the other day. Each atom in a atomic nucleus is held together with a force of 20 lbs. So how many atoms released their 20 lbs at 7:53? Another fact I came across was that you could line up 11,000,000 atoms across the point on a pin. So the energy released here is enormous. Kind regards, and greetings from Africa.

[@valkyrie9212]

I don’t think a press can achieve nuclear fission like splitting atoms. If it did there’d be a crater on the lot the press once resided.

[@technoman9000]

Hate to break it to you, but what you're seeing is more of a crystal shattering and breaking chemical bonds, no atomic action. 😏

[@davidwootton683]

@@technoman9000 Thankyou for taking the trouble to comment. I am referring to the iron + carbon, and other alloys in the material. Fe atoms extreme dislocation. Metal to metal bonds.

[@WoodworkerDon]

I like the videos when Lauri makes things "more explody."😁 Prrritti Guud. 👍

[@jackmclane1826]

The red hot ceramic ball was probably the most dangerous piece you ever tried to crush... this could've gone really wrong! 😅 /edit: I probably got that wrong. Maybe the ceramic ball wasn't hot.

[@mxecho]

why? hot rocks dangerous?

[@jort93z]

homemade armor piercing ammunition test. lmao. But they are behind a pretty thick polycarbonate shield, in addition to the main protection(which is usally enough already), so i think the risk of bodily injury is quite low.

[@jackmclane1826]

​@@mxecho Because it can still brittle AF, even if it is 1000°C hot. And could then still explode violently and spreading shrapnells with even higher energy than steel. And start a fire wherever one lands. Depends on the type of ceramic, though. I rarely get raised blood pressure from these vids, but this one did it! 😅

[@jackmclane1826]

@@jort93z The reaction of polycarbonate to 1000°C hot shrapnel would probably interesting. ;) I don't think it would pierce, though.

[@MADTYGER66]

Actaully hot meta is more smushable then cold

[@crazyscooby9670]

It's my first time I watched your video 🤣 you sound like retired Mario by the respect man keep it up

[@charleschi843]

2:20 Sounds like an accent an American actor tries to make to sound foreign. 😂

[@brandonn6099]

Anni is back! Haven't heard her laughter in the last few videos I watched.

[@maanerotte]

Hi Lauri Thanks for your videos. I am not a specialist, but I think you should be careful with some materials, when they don't fracture in the press. I think that some materials like hardened steel and ceramics can sometimes "store" internal tension, and will be able to violently fracture, after you take them out of the press. With kind regards Thomas

[@Epicdps]

Can you please write this to them in email/pm?

[@ralphday4842]

Well Lauri IS a highly trained specialist. I'm sure he already knows whatever you are trying to suggest.

[@oblongcassidy]

Residual stress is definitely a thing, but I don't think it's a concern here

[@hoi-polloi1863]

The cryogenically hardened ball bearing was intense. Is this the first time the all-powerful Hydraulic Press has been defeated?

[@OmniscientWarrior]

Never underestimate the power of the balls of steel. Especially if given more that just cool water to cool them.

[@OmniscientWarrior]

You can think of it like this, metals are strong when they are frozen. So long as the impurities are properly removed, it will freeze together at near the same rate, keeping it strong. If anyone knows about old sword smithing, you beat the metal when it is hot to shake and help remove impurities. But it is doused in water to cool it quickly and help surface the impurities to remove them; and that can done over and over depending on the desired result, at least a couple of hundred years ago it was. Different rates of cooling also changed results. The process is called quenching. There is full quenching and slack quenching. Slack witching is the one done to make a stronger product and, in a way, what you did with the nitrogen because it was already cooled first before you made it cooler. The most important factor is what I hit on earlier, the cooling and heating must be uniform, otherwise it will break apart.

[@dylanberger8701]

cryogenic treating of steels is a VERY time dependent process, try holding your parts at liquid nitrogen for ~2 days for some crazy effects.

[@andie_pants]

There are few visuals more satisfying to me than watching scale flake off of hot steel under pressure.

[@maksymilianroszkowiak9839]

i think the balls dont explode as easily at higher force, because as the force increases, the ball is making bigger dent in the tool, however bigger dent means bigger area and the stress is distributed more evenly on the ball. Harder tool would definitely make it easier to crush the balls. Making it all out of very strong steel might be expensive, so i suggest using only metal plate at the end of the tool

[@LSDon-gs7bz]

So yeah metal is actually relatively uneffected by liquid nitrogen and freezing metal doesn't make it more brittle plus by the time the ball explodes it has completely thawed and in most cases gotten quite hot

[@snoopyjc]

Nice to see Anni again!!! Hugs

[@raw_pc]

I might be high on sugar but when I hear that slomo blast sound 0:53 and see those lamps falling inside, it cracks me up 😂🤣☠ thank you for the entertainment 🖤

[@SammyM00782]

Who wouldn't want to go to Finland?!! Sounds like a good time to me, idk.

[@Angrymuscles]

Time for the mass kick-starter to begin. You have our love, our channel subscriptions, and soon will have our money. Sisu.

[@xochj]

Thank you for showing the super slow motion versions!

[@elwin_tjustice45]

Thank you for getting that camera for this video! The footage was absolutely incredible!!

[@kingseekerbackup3085]

Temperature is the willingness of the atoms to move. So the reason why the cooler ball is just super hard was because the atoms in that metal is barely moving therefore incredibly hard, and opposite for the hot ball where the atoms likes to move alot and reposition.

[@thwartificer]

So why do some things crack easier when cold?

[@jirieskelinen5607]

@@thwartificer well think of it like twigs . One is easy to snap because it is so tense but have multiple of them going vice versa and its much more hard to brake. . If something is small enough the physical bonds are actually easier to snap becauce they are likely mostly facing the same way when there is enough size that is not really a factor anymore. Likely for example the Hammer is made in a way that the bonds are facing the same way. This is also a reason some hammers get magnetised so easily btw.

[@AdamEarl2]

The “soft” grain structure in steel, is a system of layers which have weak boundary connections. When a force is applied, those layers shift easily. By freezing, those layers break up into random orientation and it makes the steel harder.

[@jhonnysport7908]

"OK it's a bit harder......... (presses to max)..... VAT DA HELL!!!!!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jhonnysport7908]

Today is one of the very rare days that the h.p meet its match 😂

[@InnerVisions68]

Finland is such a kickass place. ✊🏼 🇫🇮

[@ceceliagonzalez7176]

"Big ass bearing balls" 😂. Idk why that caught me off guard, but I literally laughed out loud. That's funny af, thanks for that

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

I just want to say I'm glad to see more original content from you recently. The stream of compilation videos just doesn't engage me at all, the part I like watching for is hearing what you're doing, why, and what your expectations are. Explosions are just a bonus, I'd watch without them lol

[@shadymaint1]

Watching all that shrapnel fly all over makes my skin crawl. Several years ago I had to have surgery to remove several pieces of shrapnel from my left hand. A couple pieces were stuck in the bone. FYI do not hit spring steel with a hammer.

[@mamupelu565]

Damn, to the bone? All because of a hammer hit?

[@shadymaint1]

@@mamupelu565 trying to remove a torsion bar from a lower control arm. Gave it a few good whacks with a hammer and the end ofbthe torsion bar exploded. Took several chunks to my left hand. Walked by the boss on my way to the bathroom leaving a trail of blood on the floor. Told him I sprung a leak. Still have the pieces they took out of me in a little jar.

[@mamupelu565]

@@shadymaint1 oh my god, thats brutal

[@opesam]

That Slo-mo was gorgeous... 😍

[@loriepaulsen1357]

Close to the very end of the video when it's showing in slow motion the ball being crushed, breaking apart and flying outward, the lower cylinder has several lines that appear on it. I was curious to know if this was 1) a distortion of light due to the camera 2) from any kind of temp change or 3) a pressure wave traveling thru the cylinder. My guess is number 3. Can you tell me what it is for certain.

[@Xerdies]

The colored nails of your wife are very very nice

[@The221wyo]

This channel has always been Awesome!!!! You guys are cool cats!!

[@nobodywish1349]

Just wanna say the last one in slowmo was so beautiful. Good job

[@vvvooo9413]

Let's take a moment for the balls that were sacrificed for a Nobel purpose

[@senorjp21]

Image sensors are sensitive to infrared light, so most cameras include infrared filters which can distort the color of glowing-red objects

[@TonusStoneshield]

Are they back together? I had thought they were having issues. It's so nice to hear her laugh again.

[@HydraulicPressChannel]

We have been doing great all the time with Anni. She just wanted to do other things than 24/7 KZbin grind with her life after 6 years :D

[@TonusStoneshield]

@@HydraulicPressChannel Ah, I misunderstood then. That's great to hear!

[@davidhilsabeck]

A great demonstration of fine particles of iron being pyrophoric.

[@vinnyvidivici]

The slow-mo of the BB exploding looks exactly like the Death Star explosion.

[@bilbodd2777]

The collaboration between this channel and the slo mo guys is long overdue!

[@渡辺-s9p]

This is what I like about this channel, one minute in and we already got excellent content. No dawdling around, no clickbait-- a small explanation and we get to what we came for.

[@paceva]

At least it’s comforting to know Dracula picked up a less violent hobby.

[@9ryder]

Im a little dissapointed you didnt put ceramic ball bearing to the liquid nitrogen

[@Oicu8]

Can we get thermal imaging while pressing? That would be helpful with slow motion and doing calculations on different materials. Awesome Videos as ALWAYS!

[@username4441]

7:28 looks like a forming galaxy

[@sambrose1]

Metal is already "frozen" and freezing it won't freeze it like we are use too. When you took it to an even lower temp it just added a lower tempering temperature to the heat treat recipe making it less brittle buy changing the internal crystal structure. Thanks for demonstrating this perfectly.

[@sambrose1]

@Jaiden Smitt then why didn't the cold one break and the room temperature one exploded?

[@sambrose1]

@Jaiden Smitt if your point is that it is "incredibly brittle" it definitely does not.

[@Lindenbum]

Slow motion was Like a star collapsing on itself an going super nova. You created your own Big Bang

[@jbfire2147]

You friend said it but anything of that density should be stronger when it’s colder, larger surface area to freeze binding/fusing the atoms

[@CrpMag]

I say your high speed cameras are good enough. I just appreciate your content regardless.

[@Andrew4181975]

This channel takes the theme of Bad idea to do with heavy machinery and Hold my Beer , to the next level now with Science, Haha. I luv hearing the guy's Finnish accent , and when things Explode, the reactions are Priceless ! Slow Mo shots are really cool to see , Pun intended.

[@MadMotion42]

You heard your community and showed us a (past) video with real slow mo. Thank you :)

[@tymz-r-achangin]

You got nearly 3 1/2 million subscribers. We cant see how you dont already have a sponsor. Especially when you even had a couple million subscribers for at least the past 2-3 years

[@fireandcopper]

I think the ball gets red hot after crushing the same way you can hammer a 1/4 inch/6mm steel square bar to red hot, instead of hitting with 50-100 watts per strike the press does however many watts the failure pressure was instantly, would I think would make the ball red hot, even if only for a few seconds after

[@enricohocho]

3:07 WOW ....look at the upper left side of the ball bearing right when he said "hammer" there was a small stroke of lightning 😀😀

[@TwinTn]

If the bearing ball is made of stainless steel it will get stronger at cryogenic temperatures. This effect is repeatable and not the same as cryogenic hardening. Because of this, stainless steel is an ideal material for pressurized cryogenic storage tanks.

[@theherk]

3:30 Unexpected Cosmo and Wanda.

[@jarskil8862]

Unexpected

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Amazing, and yes many steel alloys increase strength when at lowe temperature.

[@leakingamps2050]

There's a strength to hear curve for materials, and steel's does get stronger as it gets colder! This is one of the reasons it is even considered for spaceflight, despite how heavy it is.

[@larrystevens7410]

YOU are the strangest human being on KZbin, and I love it. Keep up the crazy fun. Not everything has to be super serious. It is also very interesting. But My Goodness, whacky whacky whacky. LOL

[@joe125ful]

Edit:4:03 Question is:What happend when you throw very hot bearing ball to liquid nitrogen it will be weaker or explode? Can be nice to see that.

[@ROBLOXISAWESOME1340]

I love the high speed shots

[@rockonmyfriend]

Good job cryogenically treating the ball bearings to strengthen them! 😂

[@НиколайСергеенко-с9е]

From 2:04 to 2:24. The ball defrozing under 130 tons. And then frozing again when load falls to 70 tons. Looks like heating under pressure occurs mostly on surfase. Maybe the ball really become redhot on surface right before explode.

[@LordFalconsword]

Seems like you need some bases of better material, perhaps titanium, which is less effected by temperatures? Or just chromium steel?

[@morelenmir]

Was this a phase-transition occurring perhaps due to the super-cooling? Sometimes rifle barrels are treated in the same way to improve their hardness and accuracy.

[@m.w.4508]

The way that everything jumps, falls apart and gets absolutely destroyed around the press in every video is hilarious 😅

[@cmdrredhawk]

Not sure if I can properly describe this. Machine a recessed hole in the top and bottom press tools. Then put 3 ball bearings in each machined recess. Placing a single ball bearing to be tested in the center. The bearing in the center would have 6 contact points to the 3 bearings above and below. All or some of which could be cold,room temp,hot as compared to the press tool. This would concentrate the force onto the bearing and not the press tool.

[@marktickner7160]

Yes to a HPC and Slow Mo Guys collab!

[@ayoungtricknamedjim5498]

Excited for spess-ee-all guest!

[@LITTLEEXPERIMENTCHANNEL1]

Slow mo guys did some work with electro-boom recently with tesla coil sparks. I'm pretty sure they would love to film this.

[@bros4654]

I absolutely love this channel. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to showing us your fantastic videos!

[@JonahHax]

I read about cryogenic hardening about 20 years ago. Some people use it on engine parts so they last much longer and also on razor blades. Really fascinating stuff. I guess the atoms align like in a Prince Rupert drop or something like that..

[@OmniscientWarrior]

You can get some more info about the process by reading up on quenching; may need to include the word metal

[@stankmcdankton6204]

Congratulations on discovering the power of cryo-tempered steel.